Written on Saturday, January 26, 2013

Spec ops 6 is now live. These 25 Tasks need to be completed in order to unlock and recruit Havok.

Beast, Deadpool, and Tigra are needed to complete task 25. If you don't have enough Command Points, you may want to save 25 Gold so you can skip the task. Defeating monsters and bosses in the normal chapter won't count toward task completion. See Spec Ops 6 Task List

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First introduced in May 2012, Spec Ops or Special Operations are limited time challenges where players hope to earn unique Boss weapons, gadgets or items through battle and a new hero by completing specified objectives or tasks.

Once the time for the mission has expired, the hero is put back in the vault. The heroes and heroines are expected to be re-released into the game with 3 day offers. To-date, Mocking Bird, Emma Frost, and Magik had been re-introduced, each at 200CP each. Special Operations can be accessed from the Flight Deck or the Mission screen.

While normal missions require 10 energy to access battles, Spec Ops also require Unstable Iso-8 to do the events. It costs Unstable Iso-8 for battles and for Deploy missions from 10 to 20 onwards. It can be obtained through gifts from friends, dropped in battles or deploys, or purchased from the store However, once the mission is expired that flavor of Unstable Iso-8 goes away with it.

Players can do both Story Missions and Special Operations at the same time without aborting the other. All Special Operation Missions scales difficulty to the players' agent level, much like premium missions, as opposed to free missions, which a fixed agent level was given and was scaling difficulties to agent level after the mission was 5-starred.

As of November 30, 2012, there have been 5 Special Operation Chapters, with The Wild Hunt (Valkyrie) ended on January 07, 2013.

COMING SOON! Special Operation 6: Cry Havok! Several new mutant villains await as you embark on a quest to unlock the brother of Cyclops - our first Blaster reward hero! Best of all, a new feature will debut with this Spec Op that allows you to get a second playable CHARACTER. "Not a hero..."

Possible Spec Ops 6 Deployments

The usual pattern that emerged, starting from Spec Ops 2 (the one that started the task-based process instead of the 15-star process), is:

One or more recently released Heroes;

Several underused older heroes, and;

Marvel history has nothing to do with the Spec Ops Rewards hero and the deploy requirements

For the second category, I'm purely guessing (but I still feel this is a safe bet), by basis of Playdom being a company and all, that they have nothing to gain by choosing the more popular heroes in-game (Cap, Thor, Hulk) as requirements, because a lot of people already have them, and that won't boost sales as much as choosing the less popular ones. Still, this is merely speculation.

Mockingbird - Black Widow and Spider-Woman

Emma Frost - Colossus, Scarlet Witch, and Jean Grey

Magik - Gambit, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Black Panther

Ghost Rider - Quicksilver, Hercules, Gambit, Daredevil

Valkyrie - Beast, Kitty Pryde, Storm, Wolverine

Why they decided to use Gambit twice, I have no idea. Maybe Gambit didn't sell enough despite his popularity?
So, we can probably exempt the following from the pool:

Previous Spec Ops Heroes: Mockingbird, Emma, Magik, GR, and Val.

Our starting heroes: Black Widow, Hawkeye, Iron Man. And if they were a requirement, hey freebie!

Popular heroes (especially PVP): This list may vary. The only one I can probably confirm in here is Cap. Mayyybe Strange. I haven't seen Adamantium levels, but I don't think it'd vary too much from the hero selection I encounter in the top 1%.

Previous Hero Requirements

So, who are left in the list?

15 CPs: Iron Fist, She Hulk, Invisible Woman, Cyclops, Ms. Marvel

23 CPs: Luke Cage, Sif, Black Cat

33 CPs: Mr Fantastic, Human Torch, Thing

48 CPs: War Machine

90+ CPs: Tigra, Spider-man, Thor, Hulk, Deadpool, Cable?

Safest bet here is Tigra. Deadpool is a toss-up, as we have no precedent. Personally, I feel he (and the succeeding PVP reward heroes) now falls into the same category as Tigra. IF Deadpool becomes a requirement, Cable may also be one, depending on whether he gets released before the Spec Ops or not. The freebies (Iron Fist, She Hulk, IW, Cyclops, Ms. Marvel) haven't been any Epic Deploy requirement for Spec Ops stuff, because they're cheap/easy to get, so it's possible that Playdom won't make them requirements as well.
So far, I'd rank them like so:

Medium to Low chance - Thor, Hulk, Human Torch. Basis - enjoying relative success in PVP, so Playdom has no need to push them for player purchase. Spider-man, not as popular in PVP, but he's SPIDER-MAN, and he has cool PvE stuff, so lots of players may already have him.

IF they're repeating requirements, I'd put Rogue and Black Panther on the Fair toss up, the rest on the Medium to Low chance.
IF they'll start with the storyline-linked heroes with the next Spec Ops, and IF Vision/Ultron is involved, I'm betting on Tigra, Luke Cage, War Machine, and Spider-man. (271 CPs) If they're pushing Deadpool, he can trade places with Spidey.

you know guys, these game is full of cheat for the reason that i know a player whos got valkyrie but he has only wolverine, beast. he has no kitty and storm, how came he got her? simple by buying gold by skipping the last tasks.